Simonds Parish, Saint John County, New Brunswick

Simonds is a civil parish in Saint John County, New Brunswick, Canada.[2]

Not to be confused with Simonds Parish, Carleton County, New Brunswick.
Simonds
Parish
Location within Saint John County;
map erroneously includes City of Saint John within parish
Coordinates: 45.33°N 65.78°W / 45.33; -65.78
Country Canada
Province New Brunswick
CountySaint John County
Erected1839
Population
 (2016)[1]
 • Total3,843
 • Change 2011-16
 0.4%
 • Dwellings
1,483
Time zoneUTC-4 (AST)
 • Summer (DST)UTC-3 (ADT)
Median Income*$51,323 CDN
  • Median household income, 2005 (all households)

For governance purposes it is divided between the local service districts of Fairfield and the parish of Simonds,[3] both of which are members of the Fundy Regional Service Commission (FRSC).[4]

Contrary to the map image on this page, Simonds does not and never has included the City of Saint John within its boundaries, although Saint John did annex part of Simonds in 1967.[5]

Origin of name

The parish may have been named after Charles Simonds, Speaker of the House of Assembly when the parish was erected, or after his family, who were prominent in the early history of the province.[6]

History

Simonds was erected in 1839 from Portland Parish.[7]

In 1902 an error in the boundaries of Saint John was corrected, returning part of Simonds.[8] The error occurred in 1889 when Saint John was amalgamated with Portland Parish and its boundary description was rewritten,[9] misstating the boundary at Drurys Cove.

In 1973 the territory annexed by Saint John in 1967 was formally removed in the revision of the Territorial Division Act.[10]

Delineation

Simonds Parish is defined in the Territorial Division Act[2] as being bounded:

All that part of the County bounded south by the Bay of Fundy, west by The City of Saint John, north by the Kings County line, and east by the eastern line of lot number one, granted to Samuel Hugh, at Tynemouth Creek, and the northern prolongation thereof.

Communities

Parish population total does not include incorporated municipalities (in bold):

Geography

The following water bodies are located within or adjacent to this parish.

Demographics

Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the parish, including external routes that start or finish at the parish limits:[12]

See also

References
  2. "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  3. "New Brunswick Regulation 84-168 under the Municipalities Act (O.C. 84-582)". Government of New Brunswick. Retrieved 22 July 2020.
  4. "Communities in each of the 12 Regional Service Commissions (RSC) / Les communautés dans chacune des 12 Commissions de services régionaux (CSR)" (PDF), Government of New Brunswick, July 2017, retrieved 2 February 2021
  5. "Regulation 66–52 under the Municipalities Act (O. C. 66–1053)". The Royal Gazette. Fredericton. 124: 649–650. 28 December 1966.
  6. Ganong, William F. (1896). A Monograph of the Place-Nomenclature of the Province of New Brunswick. Royal Society of Canada. p. 273.
  7. "2 Vic. c. 15 An Act to erect the Eastern part of the Parish of Portland, in the County of Saint John, into a separate and distinct Town or Parish.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick, Passed in the Year 1839. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1839. p. 61.
  8. "2 Edward 7 c. 29 An Act to amend Chapter 8 of 59 Victoria intituled 'An Act to revise and codify an Act to provide for the division of the Province into Counties, Towns and Parishes' for the purpose of re-establishing a correct line between the City of Saint John and the Parish of Simonds at Drury Cove (so called) in the City and County of Saint John.". Acts of the Legislative Assembly of His Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Month of April, 1902. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1902. pp. 102–103.
  9. "52 Vic. c. 27 An Act to unite the City of Portland with the City of Saint John, in the City and County of Saint John, and to amend the Charter of the City of Saint John, and the Law relating to Civic Government.". Acts of the General Assembly of Her Majesty's Province of New Brunswick. Passed in the Months of March and April, 1889. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1889. pp. 133–223.
  10. "Chapter T-3 Territorial Division Act". Revised Statutes of New Brunswick 1973 Volume IV. Fredericton: Government of New Brunswick. 1973. pp. 1–70. The original printed version is cited separately to distinguish it from the edited version available online.
  11. Statistics Canada: 1986, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016 census
  12. Atlantic Canada Back Road Atlas ISBN 978-1-55368-618-7



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